This blog post describes some incredibly complex old cultural practices, including making corn and manioc edible/non-poisonous ("nixtamalization" is the name of

This blog post describes some incredibly complex old cultural practices, including making corn and manioc edible/non-poisonous ("nixtamalization" is the name of the corn-specific process), and describes the hypothesis that divination might have been used as a random number generator in order to avoid human biases. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret...